Charlotte home and Democrat., 1887-06-24
COincidence-A Renaissance.

Sumter Light Guards, was Killed at the
battle OF ettysburg. One morning, the
one after that battle, his wife, who lived
in Americus, entered her parlor, where
upon the wall hung handsome painting
OF her husband. As she glanced up she
was horror-stricken on seeing that the
painting had fallen from the wall, and in
doing so the face had been pierced by q
chair post which stood beneath where it
had hung. Rushing from the house, she
went at once to a neighbor and related the
occurrence, adding that she firmly be-
lieved the Captain had been killed in the
fight of tie day previous. On the arrival
of the train news of the battle was brought
and among the first names in the list of
those killed was that Of her gallant hns-
band The strongest feature about the
killing, however, was that he had been
shot in the face in the identical spot where
the chair post bad pierced the Canvas
Anaericus (GG.) Recorder.
During the Crimean war the wife OF a
British officer was at her beautiful home.
Looking one day through the window aud
over the flowers and shrubbery, she saw
her husband galloping to the gate on his
war horse. She was not expecting him.
Throwing aside some garment she was
sewing she rushed down the walk and
upon arriving at the gate neither horse
nor rider was to be seen. A woman of
education and refinement, she was ap-
palled at the circumstance, for she felt
certain that her husband had been killed.
Returning at once to the residence she
made a note of the day and hour. In
some ten days or less she received letter
informing her that her gallant husband
had fallen in battle and at the very min
ute she saw what she supposed to be her
husband riding rapidly to the front gate.
But let Us come nearer home. The late
Mrs Andrew Joyner of Halifax, was one
of the most intelligent, deeply pious Chris
| tian women to be found in any land or
age. She was the daughter of the elec-
brated Wiley Jones of Halifax town, of
Revolutionary fame. Mrs Joyner's first
husband was Gov. Fl. q. Burton, a native
of Granville county, but who resided at
Rocky Hill, some two or three miles from
the hamlet of Ringwood. A long wind
ing hill leads up to the residence which is
pitched on lofty eminence. Gov. Bur-
/ ton was in Western Carolina digging
| gold. He had been from home some
months. His wife and his eldest daughter
Mrs James M. Williams, were in the heavy,
close carriage returning to Rocky Hill
from a visit. Mrs Burton looked out of
the window and to her qualification and
surprise discovered her husband some fifty
yards or more distant approaching on
horseback. He was clad in his usual
farming suit. Mrs B to the driver
"Jacob is not that your master coming
down the hill?" The negro replied af-
frmatively. On went the carriage slowly,
but no rider appeared. Mrs B. looking
out and failing to see the Governor asked
Jacob if he saw him. The reply was that
he had seen him but he was gone. Upon
reaching the house the anxious wife looked
at the clock and noted the time of day and
felt assured that evil tidings would come.
The mails were slow and it took nearly a
fortnight for a letter to reach Halifax
from the county in the mountains. AT
last letter came and it announced the
death of the excellent husband who had
rendered distinguished service to the
State. His death had occurred at the
precise hour when the wife and servan,
saw him plainly with bodily eyes. Mrs
Joyner (such was her name when we knew
her)wa a woman of the highest type, and
was an enlighted Christian, almost beyon
any woman we have known. This writer
| AuC" ACA IuGt"0tCIy1 u0u NAoltOA uCi a.
her home, reverenced her as be has rever
enced but few of the children of men, and
got the story as we have told it from hel
} own lips in the presence of her daughter
, when the "second sight" or whatever il
J was, occurred. These instances are Ger
tainly very curious.
Mrs Joyner passed away from earth ts
Heaven many years ago, but her daughte
lives We could write column in telling
of some very marked and beautiful trait
characteristic of this wise, sanity woman
] of North Carolina. When she was th,
3 wife of the Governor of North Carolina
3 and occupied the residence at Raleigh, SCI
. apart by the State for the Chief Execu
tive, she allowed no dancing as had beef
T the custom. She was a constant, most de
vout attendant upon the Methodist Churcl
D availing herself habitually of the mean
of grace afforded by the prayer meeting
and the class room, and on revival occas
t ions was to be seen nightly at the alta
kneeling beside some inquiring and peui
K tent sinner, who was asking the way t
eternal life, praying for him, instructinl
" him, and encouraging him. We once dul
ing the war met her in the w. & W. csri
: We took her by the hand and aske
whittier she had been. She said she ha
been to the Rocky Mount cotton mills t.
get yarn with which to knit socks for th
soldiers. She had at her own expense rio
j den some ten miles in carriage aud som
eighty or ninety by rail to get the yarn
!. She was then more that 10 years of agt
She was refinement itself, and had bee
ir "reared in the purple" if any woman j
the State had ever been so reared.
4 On one cold, rainy day, we were sittiD
= BY her cheerful freside in delightful conve
n sation with her. Our attention was directe
to q regiment of cavalry that was passing
i'd Soldier after soldier stopped at the we
he near the front gate to refresh man an
1t beast. Quite number came to the dwel
ing and solicited something to eat. I'll
good mother gave freely all she had. A
ter half hour or more, three officers roc
8. up and dismounted. They were fne-loo
ing men, one especially SO. He weighe
$50 pounds probably, and was quite q
feet tall, shapely, erect, stalwart. M
o Joyner went to the door and saluted theI
They asked for food. Her reply was th
4. she had given all that was cooked, but
=: | thov wonId coma in and wait ahe Won